1980 in literature

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The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman to be elected to the Académie française.
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), reaches #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

New books

Richard Adams
- The Girl in a Swing
- The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
Warren Adler - War of the Roses
Woody Allen - Side Effects
Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
Ramsey Campbell, editor - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Bruce Chatwin - The Viceroy of Ouidah
Mary Higgins Clark - The Cradle Will Fall
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre -The Fifth Horseman
Basil Copper -Necropolis
L. Sprague de Camp
- Conan and the Spider God
- The Purple Pterodactyls
Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster
E. L. Doctorow - In Loon Lake
Allan W. Eckert - Song of the Wild
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Ken Follett - The Key to Rebecca
Frederick Forsyth - The Devil's Alternative
Mary Jayne Gold - Crossroads Marseilles 1940
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp - The Treasure of Tranicos
L. Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth
P. D. James - Innocent Blood
Stephen King - Firestarter
Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy
Björn Kurtén - Dance of the Tiger
John le Carré - Smiley's People
Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Spooks and Spectres
James A. Michener - The Covenant

Robert B. Parker - Looking for Rachel Wallace
Belva Plain - Random Winds
Marin Preda - Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)
Herman Raucher - There Should Have Been Castles
Mordecai Richler - Joshua Then and Now
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Sidney Sheldon - Rage of Angels
Gay Talese - Thy Neighbor's Wife
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
Roger Zelazny
- Changeling
- The Last Defender of Camelot

New drama

Howard Brenton - The Romans in Britain
Kenneth Ross - Breaker Morant
Willy Russell - Educating Rita
Sam Shepard - True West

Poetry

Main article: 1980 in poetry

Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse

Non-fiction

Pierre Berton - The Invasion of Canada
Graham Chapman et al - A Liar's Autobiography
L. Sprague de Camp - The Ragged Edge of Science
L. Sprague de Camp, editor - The Spell of Conan
Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman - No One Here Gets Out Alive
Michael Medved & Harry Medved - The Golden Turkey Awards
Carl Sagan - Cosmos
Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave

Births

Deaths

January 3 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of Born Free

(killed by a servant in northern Kenya).

January 3 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
January 11 - Barbara Pym, novelist
March 25 - James Wright, poet
April 15 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, novelist and dramatist
June 7 - Henry Miller, writer
July 1 - C. P. Snow, novelist
July 9 - Vinicius de Moraes, poet and songwriter
July 26 - Kenneth Tynan, influential theatre critic
September 18 - Katherine Anne Porter, novelist and essayist
November 9 - Patrick Campbell, journalist and wit
November 22 - Mae West, actress and dramatist
December 2 - Romain Gary, writer
December 8 - John Lennon, musician, author
December 12 - Ben Travers, dramatist
December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (author)
date unknown - Gareth Evans, philosopher
date unknown - Caradog Prichard, Welsh-language poet and novelist

Awards

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog, after the award was initially given to Paul Radley, who was disqualified after admitting his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle

Canada

See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation
Prix Médicis French: Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Cabinet-portrait who refused the prize, thus it was given to Jean Lahougue's Comptine des Height
Prix Médicis International: Andre Brink, Une saison blanche et sèche

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of Passage
Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller
Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert B. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
Whitbread Best Book Award: David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?

United States

Elsewhere

Premio Cervantes : Juan Carlos Onetti
Premio Nadal: Juan Ramón Zaragoza, Concerto grosso

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